Yemen News

Bahia Bakari, 12, lies in her bed at the Moroni hospital after she miraculously survived the Yemenia airliner crash off the Comoros islands Comorans began 30 days of national mourning yesterday for the victims of the Yemenia Airbus crash as France threatened to blacklist the airline and appointed an ambassador for victims' families.

EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani called on Tuesday for a worldwide blacklist of unsafe airlines after a Yemeni airliner crashed off the coast of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros.

Yemen has put a plan to combat a possible spread of swine flu known as H1N1, a step which comes after the World Heath Organization raised the pandemic alert level to phase 6. The plan allocates about $ 5.04 million in finance to provide necessary supplies to fight the pandemic.

A young child was recovered alive from a Yemeni jet crash in the Indian Ocean, an airline official said Tuesday.

Brussels - The European Union's transport chief said on Tuesday that European airline safety specialists would investigate whether Yemenia should be added to a blacklist of airlines banned from flying to Europe after one if its planes crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Al-Mina primary court in Aden city began on Wednesday started trailing 22 Somali pirates on charge of involving in piracy acts against ships crossing the Gulf of Aden's international waters.

The flight data recorders from a Yemenia Airways crash were possibly located off Comoros on Wednesday, a day after a jetliner with 153 people aboard went down in the Indian Ocean, a French official said.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:56 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:56 p.m. PARIS Teams searching the Indian Ocean after the crash early Tuesday of a Yemeni passenger jet rescued a girl who appeared to be the sole survivor of the 153 people on board, airline officials reported.

The Yemeni carrier whose plane crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday had been banned for now from servicing European Union-based jets after failing audit inspections, a European Union agency said.

A consortium of Arab states have set up a joint anti-piracy naval force to prevent the spread of piracy from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea and Gulf.

A Yemeni jetliner with more than 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, aviation officials in Yemen said Tuesday.

Syria and Yemen Sunday signed 13 documents, Memos of Understanding and executive programs to boost cooperation in various fields, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

Yemeni expatriates send back almost $1 billion in remittance a year, minister of Expatriate Affairs Ahmed Musa'ed Hussein said.

It also helps refine approaches to delivering social services and empowers communities and local councils to take charge of development in their areas.

As piracy continues off the coast of Somalia, fishermen from the nearby nation of Yemen find themselves caught in the crossfire between the lawless pirates and the foreign powers patrolling the Gulf of Aden.

"For our fishermen, piracy has become a daily problem," says Omar Gambeet, chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Union (FCC) based in the southern Yemeni port city Mukalla, a center for fishing in the country. "This problem has worried Yemeni fishermen, and they are too scared from going into the deep sea to fish."

The relatives of a Jewish man murdered last year in Yemen were among the three families brought to Israel on a secret Jewish Agency mission earlier this week, a member of the Arabian peninsula state's Jewish community said on Tuesday.

SANAA: Six foreign hostages kidnapped this month in a restive area of northern Yemen are alive and being held by Shiite rebels, a tribal source said Monday, after three other hostages were found dead last week.

Posted in: Local News Written By: Mohammed al-Kibsi & Mohammed al-Qiri Article Date: Jun 22, 2009 - 9:15:40 PM Amran province appeal court sentenced AbdulAziz Al-Abdi, who was charged with killing the Jewish Yemeni man Masha al-Nahari, to death.

Somalia's embattled president, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, is scrambling to salvage his new administration and fend off an unrelenting offensive by insurgents.

SANAA: A group of foreigners were warned against going on an outing during which they were kidnapped and three were subsequently killed, Yemen's interior minister said on Saturday.